Excerpt from The Text Book of Cryptic Masonry: A Manual of Instructions in the Degrees of Royal Master, Select Master and Super-Excellent Master, Together With the Ceremonies of Installing the Officers, Constituting and Dedicating a Council, and Installing the Officers of a Grand CouncilThe present work has been compiled as a Text Book for Ofiicers and Companions of Councils of Royal and Select Masters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.